madness

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. obsolete terms for legal insanity (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
lunacy, insaneness
• Derivationally related forms:
insane (for: insaneness), mad, lunatic (for: lunacy)
• Hypernyms:
insanity
2. a feeling of intense anger
- hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
- his face turned red with rage
• Syn:
fury, rage
• Derivationally related forms:
mad, rage (for: rage), furious (for: fury), infuriate (for: fury)
• Hypernyms:
anger, choler, ire
• Hyponyms:
wrath, lividity
3. the quality of being rash and foolish
- trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly
- adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness
• Syn:
folly, foolishness, craziness
• Derivationally related forms:
mad, foolish (for: foolishness), crazy (for: craziness)
• Hypernyms:
stupidity
4. an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal);
rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
• Syn:
rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa
• Hypernyms:
zoonosis, zoonotic disease
5. unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
- poetry is a sort of divine madness
• Syn:
rabidity, rabidness
• Derivationally related forms:
rabid (for: rabidness), rabid (for: rabidity), mad
• Hypernyms:
exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  rabidity, rabidness, folly, foolishness, craziness, fury, rage, rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, lunacy, insaneness